Extreme shape coexistence, of which shape isomers observed in actinide nuclei at spin zero are peculiar examples, is also at the origin of the phenomenon of superdeformation in rapidly rotating nuclei. Nevertheless, the studies of superdeformation have developed virtually in a completely independent manner from other shape-coexistence investigations, mainly because they were carried out almost...
A series of recent experiments to perform high-resolution gamma ray spectroscopy of nuclear fission have been carried out with the ν-Ball2 spectrometer at the ALTO facility of IJC Lab in the framework of the EUROLABS transnational access project [1][2]. ν-Ball2 is a state-of-the-art hybrid array developed and constructed at ALTO and used by a large international collaboration. Several open...
